The aim of this research is to employ osteobiography as a means of learning about individuals in the past. Osteobiography entails a life-history approach in the analysis of skeletal human remains. Two groups that have been characterized in the literature as ‘Romans’ and ‘barbarians’ were analyzed by the author. The research questions used skeletal remains to address how the daily life of people under Roman control compared to that of their neighbors to the north, the ‘barbarians’. Looking at two contemporaneous populations from the territory of modern Romania and dating from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD, the study examines pathological conditions and traumatic injuries, in order to gain a better understanding of the general quality of life for these individuals. One collection comes from the site of Ibida (Slava Rusă) from the Roman province of Scythia Minor, and the other originates from the Târgşor site, located to the north of the Danube frontier, in what was considered the ‘barbaricum’ (the land beyond Roman administrative control). For the purposes of this article, two individuals from each group were selected and are presented in depth herein.

这项研究的目的是利用骨传作为过去了解个人的一种手段。骨科传记需要一种生命历史方法来分析人体骨骼遗骸。作者分析了两个在文学中被称为“罗马人”和“野蛮人”的群体。研究问题使用骨骼遗骸来解决罗马人控制下的人们与北部邻居“野蛮人”的日常生活如何。考察了现代罗马尼亚领土上的两个同时期人口，它们的历史可追溯至公元3世纪至6世纪，该研究检查了病理状况和外伤，以便更好地了解这些人的总体生活质量。一个集合来自Ibida（斯拉瓦鲁萨）的网站，从西徐亚未成年人的罗马省，并从Târgşor网站上的其他起源，位于多瑙河边境的北部，在什么被认为是“ barbaricum ”（土地超越罗马行政管理）。为了本文的目的，从每个组中选择了两个人，并在此进行了详细介绍。